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Telephone number +2348173811940 is a number from Nigeria. The area code is 817. The number is designated as being used for Mobile telephones. The number was originally operated by the provider Etisalat Nigeria.

Number portability may mean that this number is no longer used as a Mobile number, be assigned to a different provider or be being operated from a different location (even overseas in the case of VoIP numbers). If the number is being used to call you then it is also possible that the number is being spoofed and does not actually belong to the person using it.

Here is some general information about the number.

Country Code: 234
Country Name: Nigeria
Type: Mobile
Original Provider: Etisalat Nigeria
Validity: The number is the correct length for a Nigerian mobile phone number.

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This number is recorded in our database for the following scams:

14th April 2023 - Advance Fee Fraud Scam

On 14th April 2023, telephone number +2348173811940 was reported as being used by scammers to pretend to be Oliver Alawuba working as CEO for United Bank for Africa using email address info.ubabankplc@africamail.com as part of an Advance Fee Fraud Scam.

In Advance Fee Fraud Scams, the scammer will offer you something of high value (a large sum of money or gold for example) and all you have to do is pay a "small" fee. What the scammer is offering you does not actually exist and the scammer will come up with fee after fee that needs to be paid by the victims, until he either runs out of money or realises that he has been scammed. The scammer will often pretend to be real people or companies, use fake websites and introduce various characters, all with the aim of convincing the victim that what is being offered to him is real.

Here is the email that the scammer sent to his victims.
UNITED BANK FOR AFRICA PLC (UBA).
HEAD OFFICE: U.B.A.HOUSE,
57, MARINA STREET,VICTORIA ISLAND
P. O. BOX 2406, LAGOS-NIGERIA.

FROM: MR.Oliver Alawuba.
THE GROUP MANAGING DIRECTOR/CEO,

Dear Esteem Beneficiary,

I am sure you have been informed by our Customer Services Department that the Federal Ministry Of Finance has approved and released your outstanding funds payment to our bank.

Welcome to United Bank for Africa (UBA) your online account has been opened and your funds has equally been lodged into your account,please you are advised to follow the instructions very correctly as you are making your transfers.

Important Notice: Your account is already in $ and you do not need to enter any $ SIGNS, NO COMMAS, NO SYMBOL on the amount you wish to transfer out from your online account while making transfer,you only need to enter the amount you wish to transfer in figures: (E.G: 1000000 or 500000). Please take this note seriously or else your transfer will not be successful.

1.Log on to our website: https://ibank.ubagroup.com
2 .Log on to our website: https://ibank.ubagroup.com
3. under the Online Banking Click on ACCOUNT LOGIN
4. Enter Your Online ID: Godstime,Password:isBest
5. Your Security Questions and answers as written below:

(a) what is your favorite food? = Steak
(b) in what year was your father born? = 1930
(c) what was your favorite sport in high school? = Handball

5. Click on VIEW TRANSACTIONS to see inside your account
6. Click on TRANSFER FUNDS to make your transfers
7. Enter correctly the account information where you wish to transfer some funds to and click Submit.
8. Enter Transaction Authorization Code (T.A.C) is: 2031
9. Enter Non-Resident Authorization Code (N.R.C) is: 2018

Once all the information is entered correctly, you will have a successful transfer in to your local account immediately because it was programmed on a swift online transfer.

Maybe you want to be sure of whom you are communicating with, you are can log on to our Bank's website to ascertain my position in the Bank Viz:http://www.ubagroup.com/mc/bios Or my Identity from: http://www.ubagroup.com/mc/bio?id=20120904032833dky9zr9pp7.

For more about me and United Bank For Africa visit the links below - http://blog.ubagroup.com/2016/08/kennedy-uzoka-assumes-office-as-uba.html https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2022/11/03/Oliver-Alawuba-resumes-as-group-managing-directorceo-uba/

Thanks for your anticipated cooperation as I look forward to receiving your call and confirmation.

Regards,
Mr. Oliver Alawuba.
GMD/CEO United Bank for Africa.
Security Line:234-817-381-1940
Reply to email:info.ubabankplc@africamail.com

This e-mail and any attachments are confidential and intended solely for the addressee and may also be privileged or exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the addressee, or have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately, delete it from your system and do not copy,disclose or otherwise act upon any part of this e-mail or its attachments. Internet communications are not guaranteed to be secure or virus-free. The UBA Bank does not accept responsibility for any loss arising from unauthorized access to, or interference with, any Internet communications by any third party,or from the transmission of any viruses. Replies to this e-mail may be monitored by the UBA Bank for operational or business reasons. Any opinion or other information in this e-mail or its attachments that does not relate to the business of the UBA Bank is personal to the sender.

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This number could also be written in the following formats

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010234-817-381-1940 010234-81-73811940 (+234) 8173-811940